Welcome to this codelab! In this codelab, we're going to walk you through making your own Twitter bot.
According to Wikipedia, "A Twitter bot is a type of bot software that controls a Twitter account via the Twitter API. The bot software may autonomously perform actions such as tweeting, re-tweeting, liking, following, unfollowing, or direct messaging other accounts."
You can do a lot with Twitter bots, tweet out interesting facts, respond with a joke whenever anyone mentions a certain word, even influence people to follow your brand or vote for a particular candidate. The Twitter bot we're making is going to use the OpenWeather API to tweet how the weather is in Stillwater whenever somebody mentions our bot in a tweet.
- Install Python if you haven't already, make sure you also get pip because we will be installing some libraries.
- Make a new Twitter app using Twitter (we'll guide you through how to do this)